SENSORS AND SYSTEMS FOR IOT AND IFTTT APPLICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS

• US 20160241660A1
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nhu Hoang
• Original Assignee: Nhu Hoang
• Inventors: Nhu, Hoang
• Application Number:
  US15/045,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20160241660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/308 using the Internet of Things
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/386 using messaging services or messaging apps using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS G06Q20/3255
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/009 the reader being an RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Devices are equipped with BLE modules that can scan, advertise, or both scan and advertise to form smart devices with beaconing capabilities. A cloud server can act as a bridge to allow a first user to remotely communicate with a second user based on the beacon generated by the smart devices. The cloud server, based on the beacon generated, can send commands to initiate one or more processes, such as to send reminders, to send open commands, or to send a digital key. Alternatively, the cloud server can act as a bridge between the first user and the second user based on the second user scanning and decoding a QR code using an app running on a smartphone used by the second user.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring and tracking an open event comprising:

a battery operated PCB with a BLE module;

wherein said BLE module is programmed to emit a beacon when the a first surface is movable relative to a second surface;

said beacon defining an open event; and

a cloud server programmed to perform at least one of record the open event in a database and send a command to a smart device upon receipt of the open event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the smart device comprises a smartphone, a tablet, or a computer.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a gateway, and wherein the gateway or the smart device is configured to send the open event to the cloud server.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first surface is a cap or a first layer of a card and the second surface is base or a second layer of a card.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising a smart TV and wherein the command from the cloud server plays a music tune, plays a video clip, or displays a picture.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the cap and the base is a dispenser bottle for storing medication, and wherein an index ID is stored in a memory on the PCB.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the Cloud server is programmed to activate a reminder protocol based on a number of times the cap is opened relative to the base.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first surface is a door on a mailbox and the second surface is the box of the mailbox.

9. An integrated home access management system comprising:

a smart doorbell equipped a BLE module and programmed with a first doorbell ID;

a first smartphone having supervisory control over the smart doorbell;

a smart doorbell App running on a second smartphone;

said smart doorbell App receiving said first doorbell ID wirelessly;

a cloud server with a database having a plurality of doorbell IDs including said first doorbell ID; and

a chat tool to enable chatting between the first smartphone and the second smartphone.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the chat tool allows an identity of a second user to be determined.

11. They system of claim 10, wherein an eKey via FB-messenger platform can be sent to the second user.

12. A system for facilitating communication between two or more parties using QR codes comprising:

a cloud server with a database;

a web-browser app programmed to allow a first user to register a first ID and associating the first ID with a first QR code;

a first smartphone associated with the first QR code;

an application running on a second smartphone programmed to decode the first QR code into readable text; and

a communication option to link the second smartphone with the first smartphone based on the readable text.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein a user of the second smartphone can remain anonymous when communicating with the first smartphone.